That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.